How important are URLs to SEO?

Question: Is it good to create a URL like San Francisco Bay Area Mold Inspection?

Answer: Keywords embedded in the website domain and in the URL’s (file names / directory names) can be very important to SEO. Often in very competitive searches, the pages that get to the top ten include the keyword in their domain name and/or file name.

This isn’t the primary factor, however. In-bound links and keyword placement in strategic tags such as the TITLE tag are much more important. You must have all factors working together to succeed in SEO.

About
Jason McDonald, Ph.D

Got a question? Click this link to email Jason or call 888-993-1122. Dr. Jason McDonald is founder and Senior SEO / Social Media Director of the JM Internet Group. He teaches the SEO training classes for the group, and therefore provides most of the SEO tips for this blog. His goal with this blog is to provide an easy 'one-stop shop' for the busy marketer looking for tips, tricks, and secrets on how to get to the top of Google and Bing for free using proven SEO tactics. When not dreaming up SEO tips, Dr. McDonald lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two dogs, a cat, four iguanas and twelve children (just kidding). Really you read down to the bio on this guy? Enjoy the blog.